Example sentences of "[noun] carry [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Unfortunately for the adventurers , the swords carried by the suits of armour ( one in each gauntlet ) each have a Zone-dispelling effect enchanted on them ; each sword can dispel any one Zone spell on contact , thereafter becoming an enchanted sword with no bonuses or special abilities . |
2 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
3 | Therefore eqn ( 10.1a ) needs to be modified in the presence of such waves , even though space–time is empty : where is the stress-energy tensor carried by the waves . |
4 | What were the goods carried by the railways in such bulk ? |
5 | The government of the day carried through the efforts of the most highly trained and intelligent of any group of civil servants in continental Europe . |
6 | This condition can relate to the value of the properties carried by the events and to the number of occurrences of the events . |
7 | Since tusks continue to grow throughout an elephant 's life , the amount of ivory carried by the herds will also increase . |
8 | The note of anger carried to the groups and couples passing by , provoking amusement and raised eyebrows . |
9 | Braitenberg says these internal connections are of two kinds : local interconnections of about 1 mm , which are largely derived from collaterals of axons leaving one region of neocortex and carrying messages elsewhere ; and long-range , distant connections carried by the axons I have just mentioned . |
10 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
11 | Women , children and old people fill 50kg baskets ( increasingly being replaced today by plastic containers ) for the men to carry to the lorries which transport the grapes to the wine lodges in Funchal . |
12 | Those were the years when Romania carried off the prizes . |
13 | ‘ Down with the KGB ’ and ‘ Down with Ligachev ’ ( Yegor Ligachev , the conservatives ' leader on the party 's politburo ) were among the milder slogans carried by the demonstrators . |
14 | Slender St. John 's wort ( Hypericum pulchrum ) , for example , was in some areas ‘ the flower carried in the arms of St. Columba ’ . |
15 | I have already said that the success of a Government 's defence policies depends on the conviction that those policies and their spokesmen carry in the eyes both of prospective opponents and of present friends . |
16 | The amount of energy carried by the electrons is thought to be spread smoothly across a spectrum . |
17 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
18 | It was later found that Mr McCubbin died , not from the shots , but from a tiny piece of wire carried by the pellets , which fatally punctured his lung . |